Jack Diehl
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Afghan woman slain for giving birth to daughter
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(También en Español) News of Note: Afghan woman slain for giving birth to daughter KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — An Afghan man killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he’d hoped for, police said Monday. The 28-year-old victim, who was known by the one name of Storai, was strangled by her…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Iran confirms death sentence for ‘porn site’ web programmer Iran’s supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces imminent execution after being found guilty of developing and promoting porn websites. Saeed Malekpour was picked up by plainclothes officers in October 2008 and taken to…
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Care About Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
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(También en Español) News of Note: Justice Dept, FBI Say Interest in Online Privacy an ‘Indicator’ of Terrorism A new flyer released by the Department of Justice and the FBI, emblazoned with the logos of each agency and being circulated to Internet cafes and other businesses, warns of “potential indicators of terrorist activities.” In particular, the…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Private Snoops Find GPS Trail Legal to Follow Online, and soon in big-box stores, you can buy a device no bigger than a cigarette pack, attach it to a car without the driv er’s knowledge and watch the vehicle’s travels — and stops — at home on your laptop.…
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Chocolate’s Child Slaves
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News of Note: Chocolate’s Child Slaves Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and often the people who harvest it are children. Many are slaves to a system that produces…
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Jurors: Researching online? Go to jail!
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(También en Español) News of Note: Jurors: leave the information age—or go to jail An English court has sentenced a juror to six months in prison for contempt of court after she performed research on the Internet and forced the abandonment of a criminal trial. Psychology lecturer Theodora Dallas, 34, was a member of the…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Anonymous takes down government, recording industry websites in retaliation for bust Anonymous says it is in the process of staging its “largest attack ever” — more than 5,000 loosely associated hackers taking down websites belonging to government and recording industry organizations in response to Thursday’s shutdown of the file-sharing…
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SOPA: US backers end support for anti-piracy bill
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(También en Español) News of Note: “SOPA: US backers end support for anti-piracy bill“ Websites all over the Internet went black Wednesday in opposition of the SOPA and PIPA bills. This protest is the first of its kind and a powerful example of the power these websites wield. The US news website Politico estimated that…
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U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech
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(También en Español) News of Note: U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] has witnessed a growing number of calls in recent weeks for Twitter to ban certain accounts of alleged terrorists. In a December 14th article in the New York Times, anonymous U.S. officials claimed they “may have…
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My Guantánamo Nightmare
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(También en Español) My Guantánamo Nightmare On Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or…